WATCH THIS!
An Interactive First Amendment Experience
Saturday, November 14, 2026 | 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Historic Zukor Screening Room
Kaufman Astoria Studios
35th Avenue and 35th Street, Astoria, Queens
Look for the Zukor Theatre Awning
This isn’t a protest. It is a celebration!
WATCH THIS! is a live experience combining film, history, spoken word, audience participation, and dance.
We’ll begin with a reading of the 1st Amendment by George Emilio Sanchez and then revisit the historic struggle for religious freedom right here in Queens, then three short films bring us into the present. Katha Cato takes on the First Amendment by the numbers, and the audience will play ‘Fun with Banned Books!’ A short doc shows us what happens when artists are silenced and an original dance performance brings the physical toll of holding onto our freedoms into the room.
Tickets: $15
George Emilio Sanchez
Featured Speaker
George Emilio Sanchez is a writer and performance artist and is an advocate for indigenous rights and sovereignty. He was a nominee for the 2025 United States Artist Fellowship. He is currently touring the U.S. with his recent solo performance work, In the Court of the Conqueror. The piece was created in collaboration with visual artist Patty Ortiz and it focuses on the 200 year-old history of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have diminished the Tribal Sovereignty of Native Nations. He is also the performance director of Emergenyc since 2008, a program excavating the intersection of arts and activism. He has been awarded two NYFA Fellowships and was named the inaugural recipient of The MacDowell’s Keith Haring Artist Fellowship in 2021. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Peru in 1994.
